Low Budget/NO Budget Marketing
Small business marketing is often a low-budget (or even NO-budget) endeavor. Paying someone else to do it is often completely out of the question, so it's up to small business owners (and often their friends and families) to do the marketing.
Fortunately, if you have a little bit of time, a little bit of patience, and the willingness to learn new stuff and be creative, low-budget marketing IS POSSIBLE!
Here are some FREE or nearly-free resources for doing your marketing yourself!
12 Resources for low-budget/no-budget marketing
Royalty-Free Images
Pixabay is an excellent source for free, royalty-free photos, illustrations, and even vector graphics! https://pixabay.com/
Unsplash specializes in free, royalty-free high-resolution photos. https://unsplash.com/
Graphics Editing
GIMP: Freeware bitmap photo editing and graphics creation software (similar to Photoshop) https://www.gimp.org
INKSCAPE: Freeware vector graphics creation software (similar to Illustrator) https://inkscape.org
Canva is a free easy-to-use web-based image-creation tool and has an excellent free version. https://www.canva.com/
Adobe Express is a web-based image-creation tool similar to Canva, also free! https://www.adobe.com/express/
Learning & Inspiration
Seth Godin's Akimbo podcast: https://play.acast.com/s/akimbo
Hubspot Academy offers free marketing mini-courses! https://academy.hubspot.com
TED Talks www.ted.com, particularly those by Simon Sinek, Adam Grant, Seth Godin, and any on creativity, leadership, decision-making
Your local library! Always be reading something! Reading sparks ideas! https://www.hillsborotxlibrary.org/
Website
WORDPRESS Blog/website: WordPress is a good web construction platform to know, and relatively easy to learn with the sheer number of tutorials available. WordPress is the platform we use most often, but you can do it yourself, too! https://wordpress.com/
Punk Poultry Media offers standard CMS hosting for less than $5 a month! We'll take great care of you! https://punkpoultrymedia.com/website-hosting